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Lt. William Wheeler DSC. MID.
Royal Australian Navy HMS Cossack
from:Narrabri, New South Wales, Australia.
(d.23rd Oct 1941)
William Wheeler was one of two sons of Harold Fearon Wheeler and Thelma Harrard. He would have been born in Australia, possibly Sydney. Sadly his brother James Wheeler was also serving and lost his life in New Guinea in the same year, 1941.